• Go to an online address given the URL (universal resource locator).
• Distinguish between search engines for web sites (e.g. the BBC site engine) and web-wide engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo).
• Navigate to popular examples of web-wide search engines online.
• Select more than one set of appropriate search terms when researching a particular topic using a web-wide search engine.
• Carry out multiple searches in parallel using the browser tab capability.
• Refine a Google search using one of Google’s advanced features.
• Scan result listings and identify results of high relevance using the brief text and the URL.
• Collect a list of relevant web sites by book-marking URLs in a dedicated folder.
• Collect relevant information by copying a web page as a PDF file within the print option.
• Collect relevant information by cutting and pasting text from web pages.
• Evaluate the credibility/value of online information by identifying the publishing source/process. (Including: governments and government departments, educational organizations, companies providing goods and services, news/media companies, on-line journals/encyclopaedias, national and international private non-profit groups with political interests, self-publishing individuals, blog/comment sites.)
• Identify material to which copyright protection applies and respect the author’s copyright
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• Go to an online address given the URL (universal resource locator).
• Distinguish between search engines for web sites (e.g. the BBC site engine) and web-wide engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo).
• Navigate to popular examples of web-wide search engines online.
• Select more than one set of appropriate search terms when researching a particular topic using a web-wide search engine.
• Carry out multiple searches in parallel using the browser tab capability.
• Refine a Google search using one of Google’s advanced features.
• Scan result listings and identify results of high relevance using the brief text and the URL.
• Collect a list of relevant web sites by book-marking URLs in a dedicated folder.
• Collect relevant information by copying a web page as a PDF file within the print option.
• Collect relevant information by cutting and pasting text from web pages.
• Evaluate the credibility/value of online information by identifying the publishing source/process. (Including: governments and government departments, educational organizations, companies providing goods and services, news/media companies, on-line journals/encyclopaedias, national and international private non-profit groups with political interests, self-publishing individuals, blog/comment sites.)
• Identify material to which copyright protection applies and respect the author’s copyright